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ROBERT, LORD MORLEY , KNIGHT
70 Writ.‡ 21 October 1442. [Kirkeby].
NORFOLK. Inquisition [indented]. Norwich, the shirehouse. 26 January 1443. [Ulveston].
Jurors: William Curson ; Thomas Knateshale ; William Rysburgh ; Thomas Bawbur ; Robert Northgate ; John Rawlyn ; John Morys ; William Harald ; Robert Bauburgh ; Simon Plombe ; John Reve ; John Trewlove ; Thomas Schadwelle ; Adam Pesacre ; Walter Halywell ; and Thomas ?Bulman.
Long before Robert’s death, Edmund Gournay , William Pette , William Cursun , and John Reed were seised of the following in demesne as of fee. They granted the manor and hundred to Thomas de Morley , the son of William de Morley , and Joan his wife and the heirs of their bodies. After their deaths the manor and hundred – except for a fishery called Sea Mere, and the advowson of the church of Hingham in the manor – descended to Robert, named in the writ, as kin and heir of Thomas and Joan, namely the son and heir of Thomas de Morley , the son and heir of Robert de Morley , the son and heir of Thomas and Joan. Robert held the manor and hundred to himself and the heirs of his body by virtue of the above grant and died seised of such estate. Hingham, the manor. In the manor there is a capital messuage, of which the herbage is worth 2s. yearly; 130 a. land, worth 108s. 4d. yearly, each acre worth 10d.; 5 a. meadow fit to mow, worth 7s. 6d. yearly, each acre worth 18d.; 3 a. several pasture, worth 2s. yearly; 6 a. marsh, of which the herbage is worth 12d. yearly; a several pasture called ‘le Fryth’, worth 18d. yearly; a stank by the manor, which is not farmed out, of which the fishery is worth 13s. 4d. yearly; a market every Saturday, with two fairs (nundinas) on the feasts of St Matthew and St Mathias , worth 53s. 4d. yearly; a grove containing 4 a., of which the underwood is worth 12d. yearly; a pasture, worth 12d. yearly; a small grove containing 1 a., of which the underwood is worth 6d. yearly; an alder-grove in common at Northwod and Keteleshawe , worth 10s. yearly; £24 3s. 4d. assize rent payable at the feasts of St Andrew , Easter, Midsummer, and Michaelmas; rent of 85 hens, payable at Christmas, worth 7s. 1d. yearly, each hen worth 1d.; ploughing of 62 a. land, done three times a year when wheat, oats, and barley are sown, worth 7s. 9d. yearly; 62 carrying-services on foot, worth 2s. 7d. yearly, each service worth ½d.; the services of threshing 50 quarters of corn with food provided by the lord, but if they do not do the services they give nothing to the lord, and they are worth nothing yearly; 57 hoeing services with food provided by the lord, but if they do not do the services they give nothing to the lord, and they are worth nothing yearly; 302½ harvest services with food provided by the lord, according to the great hundred, worth 15s. 1d. yearly, each service worth ½d. and no more because they have three meals provided by the lord, and if they do not do the services they give nothing to the lord; and pleas and perquisites of court, with view of frankpledge, worth 115s. yearly. There is there, newly acquired, ?also held of the king by knight service (de novo perquis’, de tenura predicta domini regis), ¼ messuage which was Geoffrey son of Walter’s, worth 12d. yearly in fruit and herbage. There are there 25 a. land, worth 20s. 10d. yearly, each acre worth 10d.; 2 a. meadow, worth 3s. yearly; and ½ a. pasture, worth 6d. yearly. At Brandon Parva there is 1 a. land of the same tenure, the glebe of the church of Brandon Parva , worth 10d.. Forehoe, the hundred. In the hundred there is 20s. fixed rent from leets (de certo redd’ letarum); a fixed rent of 26 hens at Christmas, worth 2s. 2d.; 26 harvest works, worth 2s. 2d.; and pleas and perquisites of court and of leets, worth 40s. yearly. The manor and hundred are held of the king in chief by knight service. Long before Robert’s death, William Phelipp, late lord Bardolf , Henry Inglose, knight , Peter Garneys , Edmund Wynter , and Henry Warner were seised of the following in demesne as of fee. By charter, shown to the jurors, they granted the manor to Robert, and Elizabeth, then his wife, and the heirs of Robert’s body, with successive remainders to the [heirs of the body] of Thomas, late lord Morley , Robert’s father, and to the right heirs of Robert. Elizabeth survives. Buxton, the manor, true annual value £40, held of the king in chief by knight service. ms: remaneret rectis heredibus Thome nuper domini Morley, et heredibus de corporibus ipsorum heredum. Et si contingat predicti heredes de corpore predicti Thome nuper domini Morley sine heredibus de corporibus suis legitime procreatis obire, extunc predictum manerium ... rectis heredibus predicti Roberti nuper domini Morley remaneret.
He died on 25 September last. Eleanor his daughter is his next heir, born on 10 October last.
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71 Writ.‡ 18 October 1442. [Kirkeby].
ESSEX. Inquisition. Hatfield Broad Oak. 2 August 1443. [Thorp].
Jurors: John Marshall ; Nicholas Kyng ; John Painfelon ; John Walle ; William Ledere ; John Sparke of Bovington; William Taillour ; John Stonhard ; John Glascok ; Nicholas Haseley of Great Hallingbury; Thomas Broun ; Thomas Pynge ; John Canfeld ; and Nicholas Tanner .
He held no lands, tenements, rents, or services of the king or of any other, but long before his death he was seised of the following in demesne as of fee. Thus seised, by charter dated 8 December 1440, shown to the jurors, he granted the manor and advowson to [+1] William, earl of Suffolk , Robert Roos, knight , the son of William, lord Roos , John Fray, chief baron of the Exchequer , Henry Langeley , and John Leventhorp , esquires, and Ralph Grey , who all survive, and William Phelipp, lord Bardolf, knight , and Henry Cheteham , now deceased, and their heirs and assigns. They were to execute his last will, which he afterwards declared to Henry Langeley , John Leventhorp , Ralph Grey , and Henry Cheteham in the following form, in the presence of Philip Thornbery, knight , John Hotoft, esquire , Edmund Bardolf , John Norreys , John Marshall , John Walle , and other faithful men at Great Hallingbury. The feoffees and their heirs and assigns were to allow Robert and his assigns to receive the issues of the manor and advowson for the term of his life. After his death the manor and advowson were to remain in the hands of the feoffees and their heirs and assigns or executors, until they had fully paid the following from the issues: Robert’s funeral expenses and other costs on account of his death; and all debts which Robert owed at the time of his death on his own account or for his dearest ancestors Thomas Morley , his great-grandfather, Robert Morley , his grandfather, and lord Thomas Morley , his father. After these expenses and debts had been fully paid the manor and advowson were to be delivered by charter to Elizabeth, wife of Robert, for the term of her life, with successive remainders to the heirs of Robert’s body and the heirs of their bodies, and to the right heirs of Robert and their heirs and assigns. [1+] Great Hallingbury, the manor, with the appurtenant advowson of the church, true annual value £20, held of the king in chief, service unknown. The manor and advowson are worth no more because when Robert was seised therein, by charters with his armorial seal shown to the jurors, he granted the following to John Eyre , ‘yoman’, for the term of his life: [1.] the office of keeper of the park and warren of Great Hallingbury, receiving a yearly wage of 2d. a day from the issues of the manor, at Easter and Michaelmas; [2.] a tenement called ‘Dorauntes’ lying on a parcel of the manor beneath the south part of the park.
Date of death as 70. Eleanor is his daughter and next heir, aged 42 weeks. [Head:] Returned on 18 August 1443.
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72 [Writ: see 71.]
HERTFORDSHIRE. Inquisition. Bishop’s Stortford. 3 August 1443. [Thorp].
Jurors: William Pekkow ; Thomas Hawys ; William Hyde ; John Appulby ; Walter Heldere ; William Bryghtyeve ; Thomas Eyre ; John Cook ; William Cook ; William Smyth ; John Bouke ; and Edmund Nydell .
He held no lands, tenements, rents, or services of the king or of any other in demesne or in service. He was once seised in demesne as of fee of the following, which he granted among other things by his charter dated 8 December 1440, as in 71 [+1] [except that the will is declared at Walkern]. In the charter he was described as Robert Morley, lord Morley , son and heir of Thomas, late lord Morley , marshall of Ireland. Walkern, the manor, and the appurtenant advowson of the church of Datchworth, annual value £10, held of the king in chief, service unknown. The manor and advowson are worth no more because at Robert’s request the above-named feoffees – William, earl of Suffolk , William lord Bardolf , Robert Roos , John Fray , John Leventhorp , Henry Langley , Ralph Grey , and Henry Cheteham – by charter dated 10 February 1441 granted to John Hotofte and John Humberston , ‘yoman’, for the term of their lives, an annual rent of 40s. sterling to be received from the manor at Easter and Michaelmas, with clause of distraint as more fully appears in the charter. As a result they were seised and in possession of the rent, and after Hotoft’s death Humberston was seised and in possession of the whole rent by right of survivorship according to the grant. Also at Robert’s request, John Fray , Henry Langeley , John Leventhorp , esquires, and Ralph Grey , inspected a charter of Robert’s in which he [1.] ratified and confirmed a charter of his father, Thomas, lord Morley , marshall of Ireland, granting to John Humberston , ‘yoman’, the office of keeper of the park and warren of Walkern, to occupy himself or by sufficient deputy for the term of his life, receiving wages of 2d. a day from the issues of the manor at the above terms, with clause of distraint; [2.] granted to the same John for the good and diligent service he had often performed in the past and was still to perform, an additional daily wage of 1d., received from the issues of the manor at the above feasts, together with pasture for a horse and 2 cows yearly in the park of the manor, and with all the wood in the park called ‘wyndefeld wode’ and ‘brovsyng wode’, and all the profits of winter pasture in the park, viz. from the feast of St Peter in Chains to the feast of the Invention of the Cross; and [3.] granted to the same John a tenement called ‘Holmes ...’ [ms faded, 2 or 3 words lost] which Robert Scot lately held according to the custom of the manor, beneath the west part of the park, all the above to be held for the term of John’s life. The feoffees confirmed this in their charter dated 1 January 1442, reciting word for word the charters of Thomas, lord Morley and Robert, lord Morley , and granting that John Humberston and his assigns could distrain in the manor should the wages of 1d. a day be in arrears for 15 days after the said feasts, as more fully appears in the charter. By virtue of these charters the same John was seised and in possession of the office, tenement, and wages in demesne as of free tenement.
Date of death and heir as 71. [Head:] Returned on 18 August 1443. [Dorse:] Inquisitions (inquisitiones).
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